Tata Salt on Sunday reiterated that the claims made earlier by an individual regarding presence of potassium ferrocyanide in its salt were “completely false and baseless”.
According to Shiv Shankar Gupta, Chairman of Godhum Grains& Farms Products, the test by American West Analytical Laboratories hasrevealed that potassium ferrocyanide levels are an alarmingly high in SambharRefined Salt at 4.71 mg/kg, at 1.85 mg/kg in Tata Salt and 1.90 mg/kg in TataSalt Lite. Tata Salt in an official statement however claimed that the recentallegations made against the purity and health benefits of Tata Salt aretotally false and misleading and being made by vested interests.
“Further to the earlier statement from dated June 26,2019, Tata Salt would like to inform that when contacted, the West AmericanAnalytical Lab confirmed that the statements made in the media in India oranywhere else about Indian table salts and its contents being harmful forconsumption were not the opinion of the lab,” read a statement issued by theTata Salt on Sunday.
It further said, “It is fraudulent to infer that TheAmerican West Analytical Labs put out an opinion on the levels of potassiumferrocyanide in the Indian salt samples. The lab did not offer any opinions ormake any statements about products submitted to their laboratory foranalysis.”